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The Forsyte saga - Complete

Name: The Forsyte saga - Complete
Author: Galsworthy, John

Galsworthy, John · Public domain text

316,487 words · about 22 h 10 min to read

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The Forsyte Saga, first published under that title in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by the English author John Galsworthy, who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of a large upper-middle-class English family that is similar to Galsworthy's own. Its members, who are only a few generations removed from their farmer ancestors, are keenly aware of their status as "new money".

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Author: John Galsworthy (1867–1933)
Language: English
Subjects: England › Social life and customs › 19th century › Fiction, Domestic fiction, Women › England › Fiction, Middle class › England › Fiction, England › Social life and customs › 20th century › Fiction, Forsyte family (Fictitious characters) › Fiction
Length: 316,487 words · about 22 h 10 min
Sections: 79 reader sections · Table of contents
Source: Project Gutenberg #4397

Contents (79)

Opening under 1 min
Preface about 5 min
I. “AT HOME” AT OLD JOLYON’S about 27 min
II. OLD JOLYON GOES TO THE OPERA about 24 min
III. DINNER AT SWITHIN’S about 21 min
IV. PROJECTION OF THE HOUSE about 15 min
V. A FORSYTE MÉNAGE about 10 min
VI. JAMES AT LARGE about 14 min
VII. OLD JOLYON’S PECCADILLO about 12 min
VIII. PLANS OF THE HOUSE about 12 min
IX. DEATH OF AUNT ANN about 14 min
I. PROGRESS OF THE HOUSE about 12 min
II. JUNE’S TREAT about 10 min
III. DRIVE WITH SWITHIN about 16 min
IV. JAMES GOES TO SEE FOR HIMSELF about 16 min
V. SOAMES AND BOSINNEY CORRESPOND about 21 min
VI. OLD JOLYON AT THE ZOO about 9 min
VII. AFTERNOON AT TIMOTHY’S about 19 min
VIII. DANCE AT ROGER’S about 13 min
IX. EVENING AT RICHMOND about 16 min
X. DIAGNOSIS OF A FORSYTE about 13 min
XI. BOSINNEY ON PAROLE about 7 min
XII. JUNE PAYS SOME CALLS about 13 min
XIII. PERFECTION OF THE HOUSE about 12 min
XIV. SOAMES SITS ON THE STAIRS about 6 min
I. MRS. MACANDER’S EVIDENCE about 17 min
II. NIGHT IN THE PARK about 7 min
III. MEETING AT THE BOTANICAL about 21 min
IV. VOYAGE INTO THE INFERNO about 16 min
V. THE TRIAL about 13 min
VI. SOAMES BREAKS THE NEWS about 16 min
VII. JUNE’S VICTORY about 12 min
VIII. BOSINNEY’S DEPARTURE about 14 min
IX. IRENE’S RETURN about 1 h 25 min
I. AT TIMOTHY’S about 14 min
II. EXIT A MAN OF THE WORLD about 18 min
III. SOAMES PREPARES TO TAKE STEPS about 8 min
IV. SOHO about 10 min
V. JAMES SEES VISIONS about 8 min
VI. NO-LONGER-YOUNG JOLYON AT HOME about 15 min
VII. THE COLT AND THE FILLY about 7 min
VIII. JOLYON PROSECUTES TRUSTEESHIP about 10 min
IX. VAL HEARS THE NEWS about 12 min
X. SOAMES ENTERTAINS THE FUTURE about 6 min
XI. AND VISITS THE PAST about 8 min
XII. ON FORSYTE ’CHANGE about 16 min
XIII. JOLYON FINDS OUT WHERE HE IS about 8 min
XIV. SOAMES DISCOVERS WHAT HE WANTS about 5 min
I. THE THIRD GENERATION about 13 min
II. SOAMES PUTS IT TO THE TOUCH about 14 min
III. VISIT TO IRENE about 8 min
IV. WHERE FORSYTES FEAR TO TREAD about 11 min
V. JOLLY SITS IN JUDGMENT about 12 min
VI. JOLYON IN TWO MINDS about 6 min
VII. DARTIE VERSUS DARTIE about 16 min
VIII. THE CHALLENGE about 7 min
IX. DINNER AT JAMES’ about 9 min
X. DEATH OF THE DOG BALTHASAR about 6 min
XI. TIMOTHY STAYS THE ROT about 9 min
XII. PROGRESS OF THE CHASE about 8 min
XIII. “HERE WE ARE AGAIN!” about 13 min
XIV. OUTLANDISH NIGHT about 4 min
I. SOAMES IN PARIS about 10 min
II. IN THE WEB about 5 min
III. RICHMOND PARK about 10 min
IV. OVER THE RIVER about 2 min
V. SOAMES ACTS about 4 min
VI. A SUMMER DAY about 10 min
VII. A SUMMER NIGHT about 5 min
VIII. JAMES IN WAITING about 5 min
IX. OUT OF THE WEB about 13 min
X. PASSING OF AN AGE about 15 min
XI. SUSPENDED ANIMATION about 10 min
XII. BIRTH OF A FORSYTE about 9 min
XIII. JAMES IS TOLD about 7 min
XIV. HIS about 36 min
I. I.—ENCOUNTER about 2 h 18 min
II. I.—MOTHER AND SON about 2 h 2 min
III. I.—OLD JOLYON WALKS about 1 h 50 min

The opening of Preface

“The Forsyte Saga” was the title originally destined for that part of it which is called “The Man of Property”; and to adopt it for the collected chronicles of the Forsyte family has indulged the Forsytean tenacity that is in all of us. The word Saga might be objected to on the ground that it connotes the heroic and that there is little heroism in these pages. But it is used with a suitable irony; and, after all, this long tale, though it may deal with folk in frock coats, furbelows, and a gilt-edged period, is not devoid of the essential heat of conflict. Discounting for the gigantic stature and blood-thirstiness of old days, as they have come down to us in fairy-tale and legend, the folk of the old Sagas were Forsytes, assuredly, in their possessive instincts, and as little proof against the inroads of beauty and passion as Swithin, Soames, or even Young Jolyon.

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